Building on the Foundation

Man has a long and lugubrious track record of failure. Ever since Adam obeyed the voice of his wife Eve, man has been on a steady downward trend that is swiftly headed for great disaster. If we look at the back of the book, it’s pretty easy to see how things end,  which can either bring a lot of anxiety and worry or a sense of peace depending on how you handle it and whether you are one of Satan's kids, or one of God’s children. Our track record of failure brings us little comfort when it comes time to select another leader of the so-called free world. Every four years we get the joy of an extra helping of anxiety delivered by our media and politicians that pairs nicely with a glass of a 6,000-year-old bottle of apocalypse.  We are at a place in human history where men no longer seek after God, but instead seek after what they or some other man can do to save them and care for them. The government is god to these people, with the medical profession its healing right hand. Scie...

Our walk with God, our relationship with our Creator is the most important thing in our lives. It’s the most important relationship we will ever have, and we share this relationship with thousands of other Christians who all come together to form the “Body of Christ.” Or that is what is supposed to happen. That is what is supposed to happen, but it is as rare as a hen's teeth.  We are all supposed to be a team working together to further our mission, supporting and encouraging one another, but that is rarely what actually happens, and for one simple reason: us.  The problem is us! Rather, it is that portion of ourselves that we have named the Ego, and it hates teams. Even if our Ego gets to be the team's leader, it still does not like the team. It wants to be the star of the show, and it wants to do it alone. No one else can possibly be as good as us in whatever capacity we are functioning, and everyone else is just there to make us look good.  A team cannot function or ...